Benchmarking quantum annealing controls with portfolio optimization

E Grant, TS Humble, B Stump - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
Quantum annealing offers an approach to finding the optimal solutions for a variety of
computational problems, where the quantum annealing controls influence the observed …

Reinforcement quantum annealing: A hybrid quantum learning automata

R Ayanzadeh, M Halem, T Finin - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
We introduce the notion of reinforcement quantum annealing (RQA) scheme in which an
intelligent agent searches in the space of Hamiltonians and interacts with a quantum …

Efficient low temperature Monte Carlo sampling using quantum annealing

R Sandt, R Spatschek - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum annealing is an efficient technology to determine ground state configurations of
discrete binary optimization problems, described through Ising Hamiltonians. Here we show …

How to solve combinatorial optimization problems using real quantum machines: A recent survey

S Heng, D Kim, T Kim, Y Han - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A combinatorial optimization problem (COP) is the problem of finding the optimal solution in
a finite set. When the size of the feasible solution set is large, the complexity of the problem …

Multi-qubit correction for quantum annealers

R Ayanzadeh, J Dorband, M Halem, T Finin - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We present multi-qubit correction (MQC) as a novel postprocessing method for quantum
annealers that views the evolution in an open-system as a Gibbs sampler and reduces a set …

An application of quantum annealing computing to seismic inversion

AM Souza, EO Martins, I Roditi, N Sá… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Quantum computing, along with quantum metrology and quantum communication, are
disruptive technologies that promise, in the near future, to impact different sectors of …

Advanced anneal paths for improved quantum annealing

E Pelofske, G Hahn, HN Djidjev - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in quantum annealing technology make it possible to obtain high quality
approximate solutions of important NP-hard problems. With the newer generations of the D …

Quantum-assisted greedy algorithms

R Ayanzadeh, J Dorband, M Halem… - IGARSS 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show how to leverage quantum annealers (QAs) to better select candidates in greedy
algorithms. Unlike conventional greedy algorithms that employ problem-specific heuristics …